Unboxious
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- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 2 days ago:
That means you’re going to pay for them, digital or physical
Sure. I don’t mind paying. My blu-ray for one show shouldn’t be worth more than my car though.
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 2 days ago:
Yes. That said, the blu-ray was something like $800 even when it was new.
- Comment on Crunchyroll CEO Responds to Calls To Pay Japanese Anime Companies More Money for Overseas Distribution 2 days ago:
It can be expensive depending on the show. One of my favorite anime, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes, last printed DVDs in 2004. Enjoy dropping several hundred dollars for them. You can get the blu-rays but now you’re paying nearly a thousand.
- Comment on Peak Fan Sub 4 days ago:
I hadn’t seen peak today yet; thank you for that.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 22] 5 days ago:
10 years is a long time so I’ll try to be really selective:
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War - Two tsunderes have fallen for each other, and they’re trying every trick from every book to force the other person to admit it first. This is my favorite romance anime, and my favorite comedy anime as well. The manga is complete, and the anime has adapted just over half of it so far (3 seasons and 1 movie).
- Brave Bang Bravern! - Big gay robots. After all the Gundam and other shows I’ve watched I can’t believe something this silly is my favorite mech anime. It 100% deserves it though. What a sense of humor. This show is complete.
- Mob Psycho 100 - Same author as One Punch Man. A boy with psychic powers questions the value of having such a thing and tries his hardest to become the best person he can be. The same excellent writing quality you experienced with Season 1 of One Punch Man, but with even more incredible animation and a great ending. This show is complete.
- Comment on "Re:Zero" Season 4 New Teaser Visual 1 week ago:
That’s great! I was putting off Season 3 because I definitely need to rewatch Seasons 1 & 2 first, so now I can just go through all of those right before Season 4 releases.
- Comment on [Art] "Love Bullet" Illustration Celebrating Official English Release by Series Author inee 1 week ago:
That’s great news! It’s been an enjoyable one so far.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending) 1 week ago:
One of them is Witch Watch. It’s been fun, but I don’t think it’s better than Gundam GQuuuuuux. The other is Kowloon Generic Romance. TBH I’ve only watched a few episodes of it; it seems like a good story but right now I’m debating between continuing the show or switching to the manga since I’ve heard the anime is skipping a bunch of stuff.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending) 1 week ago:
I’ve heard Apocalypse Hotel is good. Hopefully I’ll find the time to give it a look soon.
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending) 1 week ago:
It’s crazy to me that Gundam GQuuuuuux didn’t even make the list. Out of the three shows I’m watching this season it by far is my favorite. I guess people must be put off by it being part of a bigger franchise; I’ll admit some parts might make less sense to someone who hasn’t seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam…
- Comment on Fujiwater 1 week ago:
I love reading this guy’s words. It’s exactly the sort of thing you’d expect the writer of Chainsaw Man to write and that’s wonderful.
- Comment on Manga General Discussion Thread - RIP MangaDex Edition [2025, Week 21] 2 weeks ago:
Finished reading Fullmetal Alchemist this week, and I’ve got to say reading that climax to the soundtrack of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was a 10/10 experience. What a great time.
Since I finished one long series I decided to start another. I’ve had all 28 volumes of the Japanese edition of Kaguya-sama: Love is War on my shelf for over a year now, but I’ve been too afraid to start it - until now! Anyways, turns out my fear was well-justified.
POV: you thought you were ready for Kaguya-sama’s vocab just because you’ve read a few other seinen manga before Kaguya saying 「お可愛いことですわね」 or “how cute” while looking down at the reader
So that’s been fun. Been learning all sorts of interesting words like 潮騒 (roar of the sea waves), or 純愛 (pure love), or 輪廻 (cycle of death and rebirth). The vocab shown off here makes Fullmetal Alchemist look simple (it wasn’t) by comparison.
Blue Box also had a nice chapter this week, so that’s been fun. I don’t like it quite as much as Kaguya-sama: Love is War, but it’s still consistently been one of my favorite love stories in manga. It might be the best shounen love story I’ve seen, though Dandadan also competes pretty hard! We’ll have to see where both of them go from here.
Speaking of Dandadan, it’s currently in the part of the arc where lots of stuff is happening and everything is absolutely insane. I’m really looking forward to seeing how that all gets resolved.
- Comment on [NEWS] Mangadex hit by massive DMCA takedown, 700+ series gone 2 weeks ago:
It’s crazy how low-res the images often are even when you pay for digital manga from the official source. I know they have higher-res images because the print version is sharper!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 2 weeks ago:
Glad you liked Cipher!
I think I just found crystal triangle on youtube
Yep, that’s the one!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 2 weeks ago:
My first time watching Steins;Gate I dropped it right about where you are for mostly the same reasons. I gave it a second try years later and I’m glad I did! It really picks up around… episode 12. Yeah. 12. It takes way too long to get exciting, but when it did I found myself unable to put it down.
- Comment on Maomao is away so Gaoshun did the mini-anime this week (The Apothecary Diaries) 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t know this existed! Thanks for putting it on my radar!
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen anyone else looking for bad anime to listen to before! I have a few suggestions:
- Tales of Byston Well: Garzey’s Wing is possibly the worst dub I’ve ever seen, and I don’t think it was a good show in the original Japanese either. Bonus points for having been directed by someone famous.
- Cipher (1989): This is basically an hour-long music video with a bit of English dialogue. It seems to expect that you’ve already read the manga because it doesn’t seem likely someone would enjoy it otherwise.
- Crystal Triangle: I don’t remember this one too well. I think it was a pretty generic adventure where the main characters just go from place to place chasing a mcguffin and experience various anime action sequences. No clue whether a dub exists for it.
- The Way of the Househusband: this one is a little sad because it’s based off a really funny manga but it’s basically not animated at all. I don’t actually know if there’s an English dub, but if there is this would be the perfect thing for someone to listen to but not watch.
- Comment on [Discussion] Love Bullet - chapter 12 3 weeks ago:
I admire the dedication of the translation team; cool of them to make such a comprehensive document on how to support the official release.
- Comment on "In the Clear Moonlit Dusk" Anime Announced (Teaser Visual) 3 weeks ago:
It’s nice to see shoujo fans still get something animated every now and then.
- Comment on Looking for recommendations 3 weeks ago:
I should clarify something about Fullmetal Alchemist. There are actually two Fullmetal Alchemist anime. The original aired in 2003 and was quite good for a while, but then about 1/3 of the way through the story it caught up with the source material and had to start making things up. Unfortunately I don’t think it did a great job of that. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was made in 2009 and does a really good job of following the story of the original manga. It probably has the best ending out of all the action/adventure anime I’ve ever seen; I highly recommend it.
- Comment on Looking for recommendations 3 weeks ago:
If you’re looking for another cool fantasy thing I can heartily recommend Delicious in Dungeon. It starts out as a simple adventure where the party is trying to get deeper into the dungeon to resurrect their fallen comrade while scavenging for food along the way. Once it’s taken a few episodes to establish the personalities of the main cast it quickly starts expanding on everything else that’s going on and the adventure gets a bit more complicated. It’s got really cool worldbuilding, character writing, and animation and is easily among my favorites.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 5 discussion 3 weeks ago:
I just about lost it when she pulled out that keychain! Reminded me a bit of the start of Wotakoi.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 19] 3 weeks ago:
Even if the anime isn’t bad it sounds like the manga is an even better experience so I figured I might as well give that a go instead. This is /c/manga after all. I don’t post about it much because lately I’ve been reading mostly in Japanese and therefore slowly but I spend time reading manga nearly every day because I really enjoy it.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 19] 3 weeks ago:
I’m a bit sad the anime is the way it is as anime-only people lose on many fun character moments. Oh well, at least it got a decent adaptation in the first place unlike some stories…
I keep hearing this over and over. I’m 3 episodes into the anime and I might just drop it and pick up the manga instead.
- Comment on Tatsuki Fujimoto's 'Look Back' Anime Film Wins Animation of the Year at Japanese Movie Critics Awards 4 weeks ago:
Not a bad faith take, and I disagree that the movie has anything like that. Sure there are events that stand out as significant, and one of them stands out as most significant, but I really don’t think it stands out in a bad or offensive way unless you just don’t like that sometimes sad things happen in movies.
- Comment on Tatsuki Fujimoto's 'Look Back' Anime Film Wins Animation of the Year at Japanese Movie Critics Awards 4 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 4 weeks ago:
The problem is if the user asks the AI a question about the language they’re learning they’ll often get confident bullshit as the response and they won’t know it’s wrong because they’re still learning.
- Comment on Tatsuki Fujimoto's 'Look Back' Anime Film Wins Animation of the Year at Japanese Movie Critics Awards 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it and I have no clue what “the thing” is here either. Maybe they’re referring to the fact the story is about as happy as you’d expect from the person who wrote it.
- Comment on Tatsuki Fujimoto's 'Look Back' Anime Film Wins Animation of the Year at Japanese Movie Critics Awards 4 weeks ago:
Well-deserved; this is one of my favorite movies ever.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 4 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Dang, I didn’t know shoulder chips could get that big!
